Education should take into account sex differences and if parents deem male teachers important enough there should be some facility for them to pay for them.

Teachings is typically a ‘second salary’ and as women are prepared to work for second salary rates and men are not its not surprising that all the teachers are female.

Feminism has been really bad for boys and it’s been bad for families and ultimately I think it’s also been bad for women.

Feminism hasn’t given women choices because we impact on one another and compete with one another so if my girlfriend and her husband work full time and buy a house I have to work full time as well to keep up. This means I can’t choose to stay at home with a child if she doesn’t because the collective choices of others mean house prices are too high to make this possible. It’s a bind.

The issue of graduate women and non graduate men without counterparts is a problem. I guess having women competing with men reveals the fact that women’s IQ’s tend not to have the extreme ranges that men’s do. Some men have both astonishingly low as well as high IQ’s where as women tend to be averagely intelligent and we can churn through the education system very appropriately and get into university.

Massively low or high levels of intelligence will never be particularly well catered for in an education system full of female teachers with typically good but not exceptional academic ability. This makes it more difficult for lots of boys to develop their abilities properly. It also means this mismatch between men and women’s IQ’s gets played out in the educational and economic spheres and this makes the romantic competition more pronounced than perhaps it once was. But although there may be an educational miss match between men and women I would imagine the economic mismatch is less pronounced.

Society tends to value masculine skills quite highly. Women tend to want a partner with a good income and you can earn a damn good income with a trade which is a typically male preserve. The types of graduate jobs that many women do on the other hand often command some pretty average salaries.
Sad though that we can’t all have quite what we want.

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I am worried though.

The vast majority of the women that I work with and who have children would much rather throw in the towel or at the very least want to significantly reduce their working hours. In many ways I suspect that they have seen through the hopeless charade that we men have constructed for ourselves to value our indentured slavery as a “profession”.

This creates an opportunity, in that part-time working and withdrawal from the labour market creates spaces for others to progress and advance. But there are a number of dangers that I see: when this current generation of female graduates decide to spend more time with their families who will step into the gap? what is the impact upon their colleagues (of either sex) of the part-time manager (at times a superior’s “quality time with the children” was bought at the expense of my own work/life balance)?

We haven’t got this right yet.

Another point to consider is that the bright daughters of the middle classes have taken up training positions that may, in the past, have been available to the sons of less well off and less well educated parents, who will not have done so well at school or university, but still have potential. In righting an historic injustice I believe that we may have committed another as, despite the rise in the number of university places has expanded immensely, entry to the professions and the availability of training places remains as restricted as ever; it’s not just at primary level that we are letting young men from poorer backgrounds down and denying their aspirations.

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Re-read the atricle, circle the bits you didn’t understand, hi-light the bits you mis-quoted then re submit your comment.

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The real man is being attacked. What a bunch of spineless wet lettuces men are at the moment. What a unnecessary irritation feminism is. I hope it is a fad and one day men and women can live in harmony once more…and what fun that will be !!

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I agree there is a need for people in this day and age to understand other “gender’s” and be more tolerant. However the “masculine qualities” as you put it, are being steadiliy and forcibly erroded. You only have to look in the schools to see the distinct lack of male teachers who would be seen as strong role models and mentors to teenage boys. Who have they got to look up to?

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In your opinion, then, are masculine qualities timeless? Is there no leeway for social change in how we understand our own and other people’s gender?

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